Linux

[Boinbo]

Thinking of switching to Linux, i heard it's faster than Windows, and cleaner. I wanna know if it's true, and if I can play Roblox on Linux, and which Linux I should get. Thx

[tomharris]

It certainly does feel faster, and the design is subjectively cleaner.

 

I googled "Roblox on Linux" and found this. I don't know how up-to-date that info is, but it says

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Roblox once worked under Ubuntu, Fedora, and many other GNU/Linux Distributions and the BSD Distributions including FreeBSD using Wine, a compatibility layer that allows other operating systems to run some Windows programs. Several years ago, however, the Roblox client was updated to treat running in Wine as a potential cheat, and this is no longer possible.

Linus did a good video on choosing a distro - Pop!_OS is your best bet if you don't have any prior Linux experience.

[Boinbo]

Just now, tomharris said:

It certainly does feel faster, and the design is subjectively cleaner.

 

I googled "Roblox on Linux" and found this. I don't know how up-to-date that info is, but it says

Linus did a good video on choosing a distro - Pop!_OS is your best bet if you don't have any prior Linux experience.

Alright, thanks! I'll ask around to be certain on Roblox compatibility.

[eira]

Roblox is not officially supported on Linux.

Sometimes people have managed to get it working on Linux, but it's hard to set it up and there are usually compatibility problems. 

If you want to play Roblox then it'd be better to stay on Windows.

[Boinbo]

1 minute ago, XR6 said:

No, Roblox is not supported on Linux.

Aight thx.

[GoodBytes]

55 minutes ago, Boinbo said:

Thinking of switching to Linux, i heard it's faster than Windows, and cleaner. I wanna know if it's true, and if I can play Roblox on Linux, and which Linux I should get. Thx

Linux is just a kernel. Performance will depends on the distro you pick. They are distro that are much lighter than other which are great for slow systems like IoT systems or really old systems, others are about just have heavy as Windows 10 or more.

 

The more things you have, including a fancier desktop experience, the more it will take system resources. There is no magic.

[tomharris]

11 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

Linux is just a kernel. Performance will depends on the distro you pick. They are distro that are much lighter than other which are great for slow systems like IoT systems or really old systems, others are about just have heavy as Windows 10 or more.

 

The more things you have, including a fancier desktop experience, the more it will take system resources. There is no magic.

I don't think that FPS from one distro to another will matter. Navigating in menus might matter, but ultimately the drivers will all be the same (given the same version) so the raw compute power of hardware will remain the same.

 

"Faster" than Windows I think is just referring to the percieved speed. I'm sure you'll know what I mean when I say it "feels fast".

 

Generally though you'd have to try pretty hard to use as much RAM/resources at idle as Windows.

[Boinbo]

Thanks @tomharris, @GoodBytes, and @XR6, bit I don't think I'll be switching, due to incompatibility with Roblox.

[tomharris]

1 hour ago, Boinbo said:

Thanks @tomharris, @GoodBytes, and @XR6, bit I don't think I'll be switching, due to incompatibility with Roblox.

Yeah fair enough, I've been unable to switch as I need the latest version of Microsoft Office, and there isn't really a drop-in replacement with feature and design parity.

Play on Linux lets you get Office 2010, but that's missing a load of features I need.

[Nettly_]

3 hours ago, Boinbo said:

Thanks @tomharris, @GoodBytes, and @XR6, bit I don't think I'll be switching, due to incompatibility with Roblox.

Yeah well if you use Lutris on Pop!_OS, they do have a Roblox installer that works 90% of the time.